Store-front construction.



I'. KRITZ. y STORE FRONT coNsTnUc'rIox. i APPLIUATIOH FILED JAIB, 1910.

987,143. A Y Patented Mar..21,19711.

- UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

FRANK KRITZ, 0F KANSAS- CITY, MISSOURI.

STORE-FRONT CON STBUCTION.

specification. Letteirratent. Application led January 6, 1910. Serial No. 536,731

' Patented Mar. a1, 1911.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK Knrrz, a citizen vof the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful n Improvements in Store-Front Constructions, of which the following is a specication. l

This invention relates to store front construction and more especially to corner bars and division bars for reliably unitipgflarge transparent window plates, my special object being to produce bars of the character mentioned which will hold the transparent plates reliably in' position while permittin them to expand and contract edgewise an laterally.

A further object is to produce bars embodying rear plates, front plates provided with grooves 1n their front faces, means uniting the front and rear plates together and holding them clamped against opposite -faces of the adjacent glass plates, and illing strips to fill said grooves and bear against the front ends of the fastening devices Ito resist forward movement of the latter.

With these general objects in view and others as hereinafter appear, the invention consists in certain novel and peculiar features of construction and organization as hereinafter described and claimed; and in order that it may be fully understood reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which :A

Figure 1, is a plan view of a portion of a store 'front construction embodyin my' in` vention. Fig'. 2, is a `plan View o a modified form of the division bar forming av part of the invention. Fig. 3, is a front view showing adjacent glass plates and vthe division bar. Fig. 4, is a vertical rsection on the line IV-IV of Fig. 1-. Fig. 5, is a vertical section on the line- V-V of Fig. 1.'

.In the said drawing where like reference characters identify corresponding parts in all of the igures, 1 indicates a portion of a storefront, the same showing two alined u glass plates 2, a glass plate 3 rearward of the planeof glass plates 2 and a fglass endplate 4, the front and rear lends o the plate 4 terminatin ends of the a jacent plate 2 and plate 3, said plate 4 being shownA as. arranged at right angles to plates 2 and 3, though it may be -adjacent to the contiguousdicates channeled front lates, said plates being of substantially ovetail shape in cross section, one of the channel plates being arranged between the adjacent ends of each pair of the glass plates, and said chan-.2 neled plates are provided with outwardlyprojecting flanges 6 overlapping and bear- 1ng against the outer faces of said adjacent or flanking glass plates, it being noticed by reference to Fig. 1 that the flanges 6 may be in alinement with each other `or at an angle to each other. 4At the outer corner the flanges 6 are bent backward so as to t *against the front sides of the adjacent plates 2 and 4. At the innercorner said flanges will be bent forward soJas to t against the front sides of'plates 3 and 4.

The channel plates are provided at suitable points .along their longitudinal centers with preferably rectangular holes 7 to receive the-squared shanks or stems 8 of nuts 9, the heads of said nuts occupying the chan- Y nels or grooves in the plates and bearing against the bases of the latter, and engaging said nuts are stove bolts 10 which also eX- tnd through the back plates 11.

In all of the types of constructionthe back plates are provided with. a central bar, the inner ends of the arms 14 terminate in hooks 15 which bow inwardly and have their terminals between the adjacent chan- 4nel plates and the edges of the adjacent glass plates, the hooks 15 of the division bar construction bearing and finding a resistance against the opposite sides of interposed channel plate and exerting a yielding pressure against the edges of the adjacent glass plates. In the reverse orinner corner bar the hooks. interlock with the inturned hook-terminals 16 of a U-shaped strip 17 snugly embracing the channel plate for its fullV length by preference, and fitting upon the rectangularshanksor stems of nuts 9. When the-bolts 10 of the inner or reverse corner bar are screwed home, the interlocked hooks 15 and Iii-keep the wings 13 from 4spreading fso that the outer ends of 'said wings and the clamping arms 14 shall i in such 'inner corner or reverse bar the tendencyl of said wings unless anchored substantially asshown, would be to spread `apa-rt and thus fail to exert' the required strip 17 as ananchor for the wings 13.v

For the purpose of yieldingly resisting approaching movement on the part of the a )acent .glass plates 2 and 4, I preferably employI two or more spring metal plates 18 toi tit flatly against the rear side of the 'channel plate and to rest by preference upon as explained they cannot slide or work downward beyond' their respective underlying `the shanks of the nuts 9, said plates terminating in spring-hooks 19 to snap upon the .channel plate and bear, against the adjacent edges of said'glass plates 2 and 4. By thus 'snapping the hook-terminals'upon the channel plate* it 'is impossible for them -to move or workwrearward from between the glass plates and by standing them upon the nuts nuts,

Inv'Fig. 2 thev channel or stiifening portion 12 ofthe back plate 1l is shown of considerably. greater. depth than in the remaining figures, and isv adapted for useA where especially vlarge glass plates are employed.

In said, figure also the bolt-numbered 20 is of greater length and it extends through thechannel plate with its! head 21 occupying-'the channel thereof, .a nut"'22l en the rear end of the bolt rearward ofthe portion 12. In both types of construction shownthe front channel '..plate is reinforced against-collapse, that is against` approach- .1. ing movement of the side walls 'of the chanp portion of the front plate,

nel, by. a filling strip23`, Awhich strip is pref-'z erably` hollow and of substantially dovetall form` so as to interlock with the dovetail .being such that the resistance of the lilling nuts or Vbolts -and utilize the Aresistance of v. .the stimato-collapsing or inward pressure stripA to colla sing .movement ofthe Walls of the front pl) pressure on said walls becomes greater, v-it being also noted that the inner portions ofv the arms of the filling strip fit against the outer faces andop osite ysides-'ofthe nuts or bolts 9 or 21 as t e-case maybe, and thus tend. to prevent outward movement of'said Imposed by the side walls of the front 'chan-V nel plate, the filling strips furthermore forming a-:closure for Athe-channel. of the.

front "lplate and hiding the nuts 'or bolts from viewfand inaccessible to a person at the4 outer side j of thewindow.

The filling-strips are( offsuch typel that.

A*I claim asnew and seams the arrangement.v

ate', increases as the. collapsingv p edges of lts arms bearln means'toprevent forwar `movement of the 2; A storefront construction, comprising `butin none of such constructions as far as I know, are the channel plates of .dovetail shape in cross'section, nor can the filling strips be snapped into place.. Furthermore in the patented construction embodying filling strips above referred to, the strips engage the inner or rear faces of the nuts or bolt heads as distinguished from those shown herein where the arms of the filling strips bear against the outer faces of the nuts and bolts. It will alsol be 'apparent that any outward movement lof the bolts' or nuts of my construction is prevented by the filling strip because of its interlocked Y' relation with the channel, whereas in the patented structures 'above mentioned the filling strips resist forward-movement only of the nuts or bolts.

From the above descri tion it will be apparent that I have prodiiced a store front .construction embodying the features of advantage enumerated as desirable which is obviously susceptible of modification in vari.

ous particulars without de arting from the spint and. scope or sacri cing any of the advantages of the ap ended claims.

Having thus descrlbedthe invention what l desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is; .y 1. A store front construction, comprismg a--pair of glass plates dis osed a slight distance apart, a channeled ace-plate arranged between the edges of the said plates and pro-I .vided with anges overlapping and bearm against the outer faces of said plates, a bac c plate overlapping and :bearing against the rear faces 0f said glass plates, `means 4connecting the front and back plates rtogether to cause them to press firmly upon the 1nforming a. closure for said channel and bearing adovetail relation thereto with the rear against the said .same and braced against inward movement a pair. of glass plates dis osed a slight dis- .tance'apart, a channeled ace-plate arranged afv back-plate'` overlapping and. bearing 'against the rear'faces ofsaidglass plates,

means connectingthe front 'and'back plates together-to cause them to press firmly upon `terp'osed glass plates, andy "a filling stripthe interposed glass plates, 'a filling strip forming a closure for said channel and beary ing ay dovetail relation thereto, and aplate bearing against the rear side of the channeled portion of the front platev and interlocked therewith and pressing in opposite directions against the adjacent edges of said glass plates.

3. .ln a store front construct-ion, a pair of glass plates, a front plate embodying a channeled portion arranged between the edges and flanges bearing against the front faces of said glass plates, a hack plate 'bearing against the rear faces of the glass plates and bridging the space between their edges, Ka nntarranged in the channel of the front plate, a bolt'exte'nding through the back and front plates and engaging said nut, and a hollow resilient dovetail filling strip fitting in 'and forming a closure for the channel of 'the front plate and yieldingly` interlocked therewith; the rear edges of the arms -of the hollow filling strip engaging the said nut to prevent 'forward movement of the same and being braced by said nut against the side walls of the channeled front, plate i to prevent inward moveinent of the said walls.

-In testimony whereof I 'aix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANK K RITZ. ylVitnesses HELEN C. RODGERS, M. A. ODONNELL. 

